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@@ -164,15 +164,11 @@ characters. [OpenBSD's wscons](https://man.openbsd.org/wscons) was inherited from NetBSD, so similar restrictions apply. -The glyphs in this gallant project would have to be severely reduced in +The glyphs in this Gallant project would have to be severely reduced in number to fit. If someone wants to contribute a stripped down font in the appropriate format, I'm willing to add it to this project. -### What about the TrueType gallant.ttf? - -Some systems no longer support BDF (or PCF) fonts. The days of raster -fonts are numbered, it would seem. With high DPI displays these days, -rendered anti-aliased fonts are the new norm. +### The TrueType gallant.ttf The `gallant.ttf` file is a conversion from BDF to TTF using [FontForge](https://fontforge.org/en-US/). (See the @@ -193,10 +189,21 @@ drawing characters, where there will be vertical gaps. The same applies to all glyphs that connect to glyphs above and below, such as large parentheses, braces, brackets, integrals, etc. -Due to a Windows quirk, I have added six fake Hiraga glyphs that Windows -tests the existence of (and would otherwise reject as a font). I'd be -extremely delighted if someone contributed the full set of Hiragana -glyphs. +### The TrueType gallant.ttf does not work on Windows. What's going on? + +The symptom is that Windows displays a popup along "gallant.ttf is not a +valid font file" when you want to copy `gallant.ttf` to +`C:\Windows\Fonts` or install it some other way. + +There seem to be at least two issues. + +1. I'm told Windows considers a font invalid if it does not contain + a certain set of six Hiragana glyphs. I have added them to the BDF + but this is not enough to solve the "gallant.ttf is not a valid + font file" popup. +2. Windows wants a scalable outline font. A bitmap-only TrueType font + file is invalid. I have yet to find an automated way, preferably + with `fontforge` script commands, to add an outline font. ### Is there a gallant.fon for Windows? @@ -207,10 +214,10 @@ would only contain 256 glyphs. I'm an ex-Sun Microsystems software engineer who had a stint in the company shortly before Oracle took over (2008/2009). I was nowhere near -the OpenBoot PROM files which contained the gallant font. My first +the OpenBoot PROM files which contained the Gallant font. My first contact with SUN hardware was in the late 80's and early 90's at university with the 3/60 and the SPARCstations. It was then and there -that the gallant font and the Trinitron CRT raster were burnt in my +that the Gallant font and the Trinitron CRT raster were burnt in my retina. ## How did you edit the glyphs? @@ -279,7 +286,7 @@ which reads: ``` In private conversation with the author, Jef said he guessed that the -gallant font was designed by someone at Sun Microsystems before it made +Gallant font was designed by someone at Sun Microsystems before it made its way to Berkeley. Further research examining the Unix history site @@ -356,4 +363,5 @@ need to render them. This is the mapping: ## TODO -* Describe how to contribute +* Describe how to contribute. +* Build a FreeBSD Port `x11-fonts/gallant` with `gallant.pcf.gz` for X11. |